H. C. Andersen
4) Thumbelina
Author
Language
English
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Description
Relates how a tiny girl becomes Queen of all the flowers after she is kidnapped by an ugly toad.
5) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 3
Language
English
Description
Once again Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement, and this time they find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story--and needing to set things right and make sure everyone has a happy ending.
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 11
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Abby is feeling slighted by not being chosen festival leader at school, and her brother Jonah thinks that a trip through the magic mirror is just what she needs--but when they find themselves in a strange version of the Princess and the pea, and Abby is tagged as the princess, who will be the next ruler of the Kingdom of Bog (which is very damp and infested with alligators), she is not so much complimented as desperate to find an alternate princess,...
9) Cold as ice
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 6
Language
English
Description
On their sixth trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the story of the Snow Queen, a troubled character who chose power over family and friendship, and Abby has to free the children the Queen has under her spell--with the help of her new friend, a talking reindeer called Ralph, and a strange girl named Sharon.
11) Thumbeline
Author
Publisher
Picture Book Studio
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
A tiny girl, no bigger than a thumb, is stolen by a great, ugly toad, and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.
Publisher
Starmaker
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A young girl and boy journey to the frigid ice palace to learn the value of human warmth. The boy, cursed by a Goblin, turns his back on imagination and the friendship of the girl, and embraces scientific logic. Only the magical intervention of the Snow queen can rescue their friendship and save them from frozen death.
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Series
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English
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The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition
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Series
Maynard Moose tales volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale, The ugly duckling, in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty.
18) Court of swans
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
England, 1381. Delia's quiet life as the daughter of an earl is shattered when her seven brothers are betrayed by their father and falsely arrested for treason and murder. With the Peasants' Revolt threatening the peace of the kingdom, King Richard II is executing anyone who poses a threat to his throne. Delia infiltrates the palace as a seamstress for the new queen so she can be near her brothers. She discovers Sir Geoffrey, the guard captain who...
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Series
Hagenheim volume 7
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Evangeline is the ward and cousin of King Richard II, and yet she dreams of a life outside of Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics. But the young king betroths her to his closest advisor, Lord Shiveley, a man twice as old as Evangeline. Desperate to escape a life married to a man she finds revolting, Evangeline runs away from the king and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village....